The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27

the president iron nashville 10 At
lanta and knows few things that
the daily papers have not told.
Nashville gave the president the
decentest reception and ovation we
saw. He made a bad mistake in
giving only four hours to the public
at Nashville. He was then in the
very heart OF the richest region of
the south and amongst the foremost
people on earth and there was the
place to linger and make acquains
tances and see what the south is.
The presidents pictures all do in =
justice to tie cards on which they
are printed. His face looks like q
boarding house beefsteak with but
ton holes in it. But that beefsteak
covers a multitude of brains. Col.
Colyar Is beautiful beside him, and
the reader knows how beWitchlngly
seraphic he and Nefty are.
Mrs. Cleveland is an angel. Such
a heavenly smile She looked to
be in ecstacies all the time, and she
smiled SO delightfully."- over the null
titudes and looked so pleasingly in
to their eyes that every mothers
son thought she mast have come al
the way down here looking for him
She is as tai! as the president ply
sically and 100 feet taller socially.
He cannot smile. He might rip.
He ought to travel on turn table
SO he could face around to the mobs
without danger of MASKING some
body, and If Col. Lamont would at
tach his head to 8 string so he
could bob it up and down without
waking him up it would be better
than riding around like 8 brazen
image or stuffed elephant.
Col. Villas wears good clothes.
The governors train left Nash
vile fifteen minutes ahead of the
| president. At every town and sta
ton the people were assem- bled in
| multitudes and greeted Gen. Marcus
Frankie with ear-piercing screams
of delight. We passed him off 70.
the president. The trip was with
out stop or incident until we reach
ed Chattanooga. When our train
came in sight every bell and whis
tie in the city commenced clangins
and screaming in concert and the
murky air seemed filled with zigzae
streaks of jsngling, twanging
screeching discord as if all the de
mons of Pandemonium were turned
loose with drumsticks in a tin
store, with every man, woman, child
niger and dog In Chattanooga
screaming as if the house was OF
FIRE and everybody's mother-in-lav
vas in the third story asleep. l
must have frightened the gods ant
they evidently thought the city wal
afre, for PIuvius turned the water
works bottom-upwards at one,
without waiting to call out the de
partment. The Chattanoodlerl
thought ours was Cleveland's traii
and wasted all this Babel and fresh
ct on US, and fifteen minutes late
when the royal train arrived thej
screeches had given out and the,
were compelled to greet him de
Gently.
| While we were waiting for tn
main show to arrive Gov. Tsylo
and his staff took carriages anC
held levee out in the raging flood
Gen. Frankie in one place and Col
| Sparks in another each posed as tn
president and were the recipient
Of great homage, until Gen. Fraukl
gave the snap away by asking We
digger if "dis tam town vas a goo
market for coon-schkins alreaty.
| The president finally arrived an
here happened an incident that ha
not been told. The party took ca
noes out to their carriages and thel
the procession began to swim arount
over the city, finally drawing nj
before the court house where wer,
assembled several thousand people
Here were the big men, the stant
and bunting and here was to be th
formal scene of the presidents re
ceptiou and it was to be an imposin,
afIalr-hut the president neve
came. He had steered his carriag
tdown some bystreet and Launched
out for the depot where he swan t.
his car and ordered his engineer t.
dee from the impending deluge
The governor and his staff stooc
around the court house until the,
got hungry and the crowd began t.
tsneak away, aud then they psddle'
| back to the depot and found tn
| president was over in Georgia. Th'
| next time the Chattanoogander
want to exhibit their cataract the
! will please select acme other cats.
| About shutdown we started 70
Georgia. The people were still as
sembled about the depots and wer
yelling as we passed. At one poin
we stopped and the crowd yelled 70
(Gov. Taylor. He was hid some
where and Col. Sparks went to ex-
cuse him. Then they forced Spark
| to speak. He was in his element
he was a leading anti, you know
and Tennessee had just gone wet
| and every thing WAS going wet il
Georgia, His euiogy upon Gov
Taylor will do to go down in tn
Fourth Reader:
Fellow Citizens, I follow mar
who came up from the bottom. a.
though he traces his ancestry bacl
to purple blood and boasts a nam
envied of all men, yet l can remem
Der when be roamed the mountain
| of his eastern home clad in singl
garment and hulled chestnuts wit
his heels. He never saw pair Q
shoes until he was l8 and owned
bob-tailed coon-dog that was par
bears large part. He would wal
J, ten miles to a log rolling and pla
I."Old Molly Hs'r" on one string a
night while the gallant mountai
boys and their buxom sweetheart
wore out the puucheons with thei
toe-nails."
| And much more in this strair
Another incident we must relat
just here only it happened late
Hon. 10. Washington, congressma
from the Nashville district, was {
our party, ant. jollier, royaler fe
low liveth not. One morning te